Colonial Mobility and the Biopolitics of the Colonial Non-Place

• Main Author: Lee, Jinhyoung
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Bare Life; Colonial Mobility; Colonial Non-Place; Humanitarianism; Imperialistic Biopower; Postcolonial Politics
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss36/12; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1867/viewcontent/KK_2036_2C_202021_2012_20Forum_20Kritika_20__20Lee.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

By approaching Namcheon Kim’s short story “On the Road” (1939) from the new mobilities paradigm, this paper explores the paradoxical relationship between the colonial government and the postcolonial politics in late colonial Korea. In this short story, the Korean territories in the late 1930s are re...